We are proud to present another a remake of an old classic (did someone say Another World?). One of the best from the glorious AMIGA era, originally cracked by our old friends in CRYSTAL.

Greets to: Scott (Dulcet Tones) IBM and Harmonica who made CRYSTAL a first class cracking group.

STORY

2326: Civil war erupts; rival gangs form an ultra-violent streetsports league called Speedball 2 to settle their deadly disputes. This sport quickly becomes popular, but without any rules or regulations also more dangerous. 10 years later, Speedball has become the national sport and the teams are now professional and sponsored by well-known brands.

GAMEPLAY

Two teams face each other in bloody battles for a steel ball. Nine on nine, in an all-out rush on the opponents' goal, almost any malicious move is permitted. The winner of the matches secures supremacy over the city.

FEATURES

A brand new multiplayer mode: Win as much professional matches as you can, join the upper leagues and unlock new content in the online store.

Customize your Speedball 2 players: Skin many features of the game such as player's tag, create your own logo and integrate it into the game. Display it on parts of the arena playground!

Choose between 3 types of characters: Male, female and even droid characters will be available.

Live news and events on the Speedball 2 TV Show All Speedball 2 events are broadcasted on the site thanks to the Speedball 2 TV Show: watch developer interviews, live events and learn news about the game.

Subscribe to the GOLD area ... ... and gain access to worldwide rankings, leagues and events. Use the match making tool to play with friends or other ranked players. Get your own page on the site and add personal information, access to a chat room and get a link to your clan's blog...

Extreme community support and actions Challenge other Speedball 2 players on the Speedball2.com game portal's international leagues and tournaments, for friendly or ranked matches. Thanks to the market center, you can download new exclusive ingame content via micropayments: tags, skins and features to customize your Speedball 2 players.

You must be connected to the internet and you should disable any firewalls that may interfere with Steam.

* Unpack.

* Mount or burn.

* Start autorun or execute setup.exe from the root folder of the ISO manually.

* Follow the standard installation process... First Steam will be installed (install Steam on a drive where you have a lot of free disk space, Steam will install Speedball2 into a sub-directory of the steam directory). After this Steam will start updating.

* Now Steam will ask you to "Create new account" or "Login to an existing account". Just to be on the safe side, we advice you to create a new account that you use solely for this release. We aren't sure but it's not unlikely that Steam will eventually be able to detect and ban those using this release and it would be a darn shame if your original Steam account got banned because of this.

* Continue the installation process until you are prompted for a serial. Now before you proceed you need to do two things:

* Copy "speedball 2 content.ncf" from the "\HATRED\Ncf_files\" directory to the "\Steam\SteamApps\" directory.

* Start our memory patcher (memorypatcher.exe). Assuming that the serial-prompt is currently showing you should see the message "Steam.exe was patched!". You can safely exit memorypatcher.exe after witnessing this message.

Now you can proceed.

Please enter "*********************************" and hit "Next >".

You should now receive the following message:

You already have active subscriptions to the game(s) associated with this product code.

You don't need to re-enter your product code, you simply need to log into this Steam account to access your games.

Hit "OK".

* Proceed like normal and you should soon see the screen "Installing from disk...". Once completed, hit "Finish".

You may also need to install DirectX: \Steam\SteamApps\common\speedball 2\DirectX9\DXSETUP.exe

Now you are almost done, just one thing left.

* Since you can't update Speedball 2: Tournament via the Steam client you need to manually copy the updated files. So copy all the files from the "\HATRED\Updated_files\" directory to the "\Steam\SteamApps\common\speedball 2\" directory.

Now you are ready to play! To start "Speedball 2: Tournament" just execute the cracked Speedball2.exe.

Don't use the installer-generated desktop shortcut!

MANUAL

We included the manual for this game in the HATRED folder (it's called manual_EN.pdf).

We are not entirely sure if this works or not. So far we weren't rejected but neither were we able to successfully join a game.

It may just be a buggy start so keep an eye on it, it may work.

DISCLAIMER:

* You will rely on us (or other DOX groups - hey, free competition) for updated files when Steam releases updates for the game since our solution doesn't allow you to update the game via the Steam client like authorized users do.

HATRED does not respect any p2p networks, NFOrce or anything to make the scene more public.

HATRED does not believe in using a lesser protected executable whether it be a steam exe, unprot exe, demo exe, activemark exe, direct2drive exe or any other weaker protected exe to make a cheap copy/paste code exe and then label it as a crack. Nor do we believe in any other sorts of cheap workarounds.